In November
and December of 2012, six public workshops were held in Siskiyou
County in order to justify the development of instream flow
studies of the Scott and Shasta Rivers. These meetings were
conducted by Normandeau and Associates at a cost to the
taxpayers of approximately 200,000 dollars.

First of
all, your Department has retained Normandeau, using public
monies, under false pretenses. Your Department announced at the
first Public meeting that CDFG was required to study flow under
Public Resources Code 10000 -10005. Since both the Scott and
Shasta are fully adjudicated watersheds and no further water
rights are possible, you have knowingly and willingly misstated
the facts and the requirements for your project. The ten
thousand codes are meant to be used when some one has applied
for an additional water right. No further rights are possible in
a fully adjudicated system.

Use of
public money to perpetrate a fraud is poor judgment on your
part, as well as a misuse of public funds. This may possibly
be a crime.

Second, your
Department claims the reason for this project, is that low flow
in the above mentioned rivers is the reason for the continued
decline and possible extinction of the Coho Salmon, a threatened
species. This claim is simply not true. Odd that Fish and Game
would choose to tell a lie which is so easily verified.
However, since by all accounts, even the Department's own
statistics, this is a record year for Salmon returns and next
year is likely to be as good or better, one can only wonder
what the true motives of CDFG are. Certainly telling the truth
and dealing honestly with people are not among those motives.
Once again, deliberately telling falsehoods to the public in
order to achieve and end is poor ethic at best, and at worst is
also a crime.

We can only
surmise from the process, the end, which Normandeau hoped to
achieve, on behalf of CDFG, was to marginalize property owners,
water right owners, and taxpayers in order to construct a group
of so called “stakeholders” who would agree with the end agenda
of CDFG. We also surmise from your behavior that your agenda is
once again to insinuate your Department into Surface Water
rights. You have been sued twice already for much the same
thing. You have lost both times. Does your department have so
little regard for the people you are supposed to serve that the
waste of taxpayers money means nothing to you?

POW and
others who attended your meetings were shocked to see your
political bar graph, upon which property owners were shown to be
near to the bottom of the list of importance in your
“stakeholders” chart.

The Delphic
technique, which Normandeau employes is typically used to
identify political opposition to a given project and not for
true scientific research. We the people are insulted by the
behavior of you, your Department and of Normandeau. It is so
typical of CDFG to give groups who are never impacted by the
consequences of your action more priority than those who are
your obvious targets. KS Wild and Center for Biological
Diversity are not more important than the people who own the
property in question. These groups have nothing to lose by your
lack of judgment and your poor ethics. We property owners, on
the other hand, have everything to lose and yet you do not
consider the impact to people at all. You also refuse to
acknowledge Ocean Conditions, over fishing, tribal take or any
of the impacts which may affect the fish, you claim, are near to
extinction.

In Closing,
no we will not participate in your illegal and fraudulent
project. No, we will not cooperate with you or Normandeau in
any way except incident to gathering evidence with which you,
your Department and Normandeau may incriminate yourselves. We
will not give you access to our property or to our equipment.
In short we will never cooperate in any way with liars and
criminals. We will not do this because, what you are doing is
wrong and no possible good can come to our members from any
cooperation we give you. Cooperation to CDFG means you want to
take something which you have no right to take. We will fight
you with all the means at our disposal to ensure that we
maintain our Constitutional Right to property and the liberty to
use our property to better the lives of our families. Mr Manji,
you admitted to me in front of witnesses that you are willing to
spend whatever monies are necessary to maintain even a small
population of Coho in recognition that the Scott and Shasta are
the Southern fringe of their range.

Your own
Fish and Game Bulletin No 34 shows us that all of the money and
all of your wasted time and effort and not done one single thing
to change a coastal spawning fish into some thing that it is
not. Shame on the Department of Fish and Game for wasting the
hard earned money of California Taxpayers at a time when we have
no such funds to waste. Shame on Normandeau for helping to to
attempt to perpetrate this fraud. I suggest that you review
your oath of office. You may also be interested to review Title
18 sections 241 and 242 of the US Code as well as Title 42
Section 1983. While you are at it, Article 1 section 1 of the
Constitution of California may be of interest.

Sincerely,

Mark Baird

Vice
President Scott Valley Protect Our Water

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